Santa Barbara County Biographies
G. J. ANTHONY
Submitted by Peggy Hooper
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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G. J. ANTHONY was born in Whitley County, Indiana, in 1849. In 1854 he came across
the plains to California with his parents, suffering great delays and hardships from
the Indians, who were especially troublesome that year. His early life was passed
at his home in Santa Cruz, a part of the time being employed as clerk in
the lumber business of his father, G. T. Anthony. In 1872 he went to Monterey County
and engaged in the stock business on Government land, keeping about 200 head, and
continuing there for three years. At the end of that time lie returned to Santa Cruz,
where he was occupied one year in a saw- mill. In 1876 he came to Lompoc and
engaged in farming, The next year he located at Los Alamos, where he was interested
in sheep-raising, and, although the year was dry, he was very successful, selling at a
profit in the fall of 1877, and then returning to Lompoc. At that time lie entered his
father's blacksmith shop and learned the trade, at which he has since continued to
work. He came to Santa Ynez in November, 1887, and after purchasing town property
and building his house, he went into partnership with his father, under the firm name
of G. T. Anthony & Son. They have erected a tine brick building and are doing a prosperous
business, being also agents for light and heavy wagons and farm machinery.
Mr. Anthony lost his first wife at Lompoc. He was there again married in 1884, this time
to Miss Louisa Manda Reed, a native of California. He has one child by his first marriage
and two by the second.
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California - by
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II. -Lewis Publ. Co.,
Chicago, 1917.